TRENTON – A Mercer County Community College student was beaten and robbed by three men who accosted him Monday afternoon, police said.

The 18-year-old had left the James Kearney campus in downtown Trenton and was on North Broad Street near East State Street around 2 p.m., Lt. Mark Kieffer said. Three men approached the victim.

“They began to punch him, he tried to punch back,” Kieffer said.

The suspects grabbed the victim’s backpack, took $60 cash from his pocket, and ran off. A laptop computer was inside the backpack, Kieffer said.

Full descriptions of the suspects were not available. Police are investigating. Anyone with information on the crime should call police at (609) 989-4170, or the Confidential Tip Line at (609) 989-3663.